enterpriser


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en·ter·prise

 (ĕn′tər-prīz′)
n.
1. An undertaking, especially one of some scope, complication, and risk.
2. A business organization.
3. Industrious, systematic activity, especially when directed toward profit: Private enterprise is basic to capitalism.
4. Willingness to undertake new ventures; initiative: "Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs" (Henry David Thoreau).
[Middle English, from Old French entreprise, from past participle of entreprendre, to undertake : entre-, between (from Latin inter-; see inter-) + prendre, to take (from Latin prehendere, prēndere; see ghend- in Indo-European roots).]
en′ter·pris′er n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.enterpriser - someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for itenterpriser - someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
entrepreneur
bourgeois, businessperson - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
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An hasty fortune maketh an enterpriser and remover (the French hath it better, entreprenant, or remuant); but the exercised fortune maketh the able man.
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